Life can be a mess.
It's ok to admit it.
At more than one point in our lives here on earth it's going to be a mess. Every person will go through it. Nobody is immune. It's this thing called sin that we are ALL born with. Everybody has their own extremely huge pile of junk. The things they wish they hadn't done. The choice you wish you hadn't made. The words you wish you hadn't absentmindedly allowed to escape your lips. You can't change the past. Dwelling on it is not going to make a difference. The future can be changed though. Jesus isn't going to condemn your past. HE came to save you.
"For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." ~ John 3:17
Hard concept to accept.
A free gift. In our society a free gift always has a loophole. If you don't read the fine print you'll probably get cheated out of something. This gift has no loopholes.
Back to what I was saying though. It's ok to admit your downfalls. Sooner or later you're going to learn that EVERYBODY has a "past". A year they wish never to repeat or speak of. A day that will forever be kept secret. An hour when instead of following God they turned their back on Him.
God can use our "past" for His glory. To teach others and to comfort others. We can use the comfort we received in giving our troubles to Him, to comfort others who are going through similar situations.
"3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4
who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in
any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God."~ 2 Corinthians 1:3-4It's ok to admit it.
At more than one point in our lives here on earth it's going to be a mess. Every person will go through it. Nobody is immune. It's this thing called sin that we are ALL born with. Everybody has their own extremely huge pile of junk. The things they wish they hadn't done. The choice you wish you hadn't made. The words you wish you hadn't absentmindedly allowed to escape your lips. You can't change the past. Dwelling on it is not going to make a difference. The future can be changed though. Jesus isn't going to condemn your past. HE came to save you.
"For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." ~ John 3:17
Hard concept to accept.
A free gift. In our society a free gift always has a loophole. If you don't read the fine print you'll probably get cheated out of something. This gift has no loopholes.
Back to what I was saying though. It's ok to admit your downfalls. Sooner or later you're going to learn that EVERYBODY has a "past". A year they wish never to repeat or speak of. A day that will forever be kept secret. An hour when instead of following God they turned their back on Him.
God can use our "past" for His glory. To teach others and to comfort others. We can use the comfort we received in giving our troubles to Him, to comfort others who are going through similar situations.
This is why as Paul said "I will boast all the more gladly about my weakness."
"Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."
~ 2 Corinthians 12: 8-10
I love that last line. "For when I am weak, then I am strong."
The Cook
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